TL;DR: Game Wipes are unnecessary and the idea of one has made me not want to play the game anymore. I will never be able to access "end-game", so why even try?

Why will I have to do everything again three months from now? Does anyone really think that working so hard on quests just to have all your work be meaningless is a great idea? Wipes for this game are completely unnecessary. We already have a matchmaker based on your average loot taken, so there's no reason to wipe for "balancing" reasons.

I guess casual players will NEVER have a chance to touch red-tier gear. I was trying so hard to find the loot to turn in quests because I thought I was making progress. But now I realize I have to push a Sisyphean boulder just to be able to TOUCH green-tier gear after 3-4 IRL weeks because I can only put in a few hours of gameplay at a time. I'll probably be just getting access to blue-tier gear when it wipes in three months from now. Guess I'm not ever allowed to try the later-tier guns because I will always be "wiped" out of it.

"I can't wait for wipe so everyone is on the same level!" is what I hear. Is that really what you think is going to keep people coming back? Destroying any and all sense of progress in a game? To who is that actually "fun"? It seems to appeal to the low-skilled players that assume to be losing gun fights because "they had better gear", rather than reflecting on their own capabilities. Once again, new players won't be facing red-tier gamers because of the matchmaking system, so there was no playing field to balance.

What emotions are YAGER trying to give to their players? Artificial frustration? "Hey I know you're grinding to do late-game content, but you're going to have to wait another 2 months because you weren't fast enough!" Well, then why would I stay? Why would I try? Instead of grinding for progress on an alien world now, it seems like this is just a big deathmatch arena that you load into. Why would I avoid contact with players when I have something I need in my backpack? Because I'll just need that same thing again in three months time, so in practice, I don't actually "need" it. It's all just busy-work to disguise this game as being more than a deathmatch with guns that are only available to the most loyal.

In fact, all I do now is hunt other players because I know I'll never have the ability to unlock the better gear in the timeframe that this game wants me to do so. Is that what YAGER wants me to do?

Also, before you say "BuT tArKoV wIpEs", Tarkov wipes are purely for the developmental and testing side of the game. There will be a permanent non-wiping character on full release, with the OPTION of a character with wipes. "BuT PoE WiPeS" Once again, they have a permanent character with the OPTION of a wiped character. There's no sense in this game having an ONLY WIPE stipulation.